The worst things to buy in April

Not everything about spring is good, including increasing prices.Flickr / hjl
April is here, and if you're stuck indoors waiting out the seasonal showers, you'll have an excuse to spend more time shopping for the best deals online.

To help guide you towards savvy purchases, we dug through the DealNews archives from years past to see what goods are, well, good to buy in April, and what you should hold off on purchasing.

From early spring apparel sales to Tax Day freebies, here is what's in store this month for the smart shopper.

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Don't expect deals on the Apple Watch.

Apple finally released details on its smartwatch, and it'll soon be sold at various stores nationwide. But despite the recent trend for Apple products to go on sale shortly after release, we don't expect to see any deals on the watch for several months since it's a brand new product category. According to deal data for the original iPad, the earliest we might see earnest discounts will be November, if not later. For more information on Apple Watch deals, check out our complete price guide.

The Google effect won't change your phone bills ... yet.

Google announced last month that it will offer wireless cell phone service by the end of 2015, by piggybacking off the network of some bigger providers. While Google claims it merely wants to demonstrate technical innovations that existing carriers should adopt, it's likely that the company's very presence in the industry will shake things up. When Google offered cheap internet service in select cities a few years ago, it forced competing ISPs to offer deals so that customers didn't switch their service. We expect to see more competitive offers from Verizon, AT&T, and others once Google starts rolling out its service.

Wait until Memorial Day for mattresses, tools, and appliances.

Departments stores almost always roll out special sales for holiday weekends, and Memorial Day usually provides excellent discounts on select home items. If you wait until next month, you'll find tools that are up to 50% off, large appliances for about 30% off, and mattresses that get an extra discount of 10% to 40% off. In fact, for the past few years, we've seen much deeper discounts on mattresses in May than in April. Therefore, any discounts you see this month will very likely get even steeper if you wait.

Select produce will increase in price this spring.

Your goals to eat fresher foods this year might be temporarily derailed as prices are on the rise for select items. According to the USDA, fresh vegetables will increase in price by 2% to 3%, while grapefruit is already up 14% from 2014. Meanwhile, avocados are predicted to increase by an astounding 30% because of California droughts. (The state produces 95% of the nation's crop, so there's little way around this one.) Click here for more foods that might be more expensive this spring, and for suggested alternatives that can save your grocery budget.

You're going to pay more for fine wines.

It's understandable if you didn't personally feel upset about price increases on vegetables (another way to justify frequent pizza dinners!), but this one may hurt the winos: Fine wines are unfortunately going up in price. This applies to any bottle in the $20+ price range, but the North Bay Business Journal notes that Napa Valley reserve cabernet sauvignons that would normally sell for about $100, for example, have recently increased in price by $15 to $20. Make sure to spend more time looking for budget bottles that provide big value.